What Did Mesopotamian Music Sound Like? - A Beginner’s Introduction
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This video will be a very general, introductory look at the basic of what we do know of Mesopotamian music from around the 1st millennia B.C and perhaps older. Background artwork by Endegor:
Plausible reconstructions of what Mesopotamian music may have sounded like (keep in mind that even these are still conjectural to many degrees, there’s simply no way as of now to know what their music sounded like beyond the generalities I talk about in this video):
Sources:
Music in the Texts from Ugarit, Matahisa Koitabasi:
A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766, Leon Crickmore:
Musical Ensembles, Krispjin:
The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts, M. L. West:
Is Nid Qabli Dorian ? Tuning and modality in Greek and Hurrian music, Stefan Hagel:
The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music: Anne Draffkorn Kilmer:
New Light on the Babylonian Tonal System, Leon Crickmore:
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer, Jay Rahn:
Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977, Anne Draffkorn Kilmer:
Mesopotamian Music (pre-Islamic), Bo Lawergren:
A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit, The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music, Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin:
1984 the discovery of mesopotamian
Interview with Anne Kilmer:
The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East, Richard Dumbrill
The earliest evidence of heptatonism in a late Old Babylonian text: CBS 1766
00:00 Intro
00:54 Some historical music can’t be heard, only talked about
3:13 What Mesopotamian music was *not*
6:23 The instruments
11:11 The sound of melodies
20:21 The “orientality” of Mesopotamian music
30:30 The legacy of Mesopotamian music
33:10 A plausible demonstration
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